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PG Dip Practice Development

  • DeadlineStudy Details:

    PgDip: 2 years part-time, 3 years part-time (distance learning)

Course Description

If you’re an experienced practitioner looking for a professional edge, our course will provide a stimulating and engaging learning experience, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to be an innovator in your field.

We make it easier for you to reach your academic potential because flexibility and choice sit at the heart of our programme, so you can fit your studies around your busy life.

Entry Requirements

An honours degree classification second-class honours, lower division or above in a related subject.

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Fees

https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/student-finance/postgraduate/

Module Details

Core modules

You must study the module below:

  • HLLG7100 Research Methods

You must study one of the following modules:

  • HLLG7004 Evidence Based Practice
  • HLLG7006 Leadership

Optional modules

(Subject to availability and demand)

  • Action Learning: Principles and Application of in the Workplace
  • Active Ageing
  • Acute and Critical Care: Foundations for Practice
  • Acute Care: Assessment and Management of the Acutely Ill Adult
  • Advanced Approaches to Evaluation
  • Advanced Assessment and Management of Common Childhood Illnesses
  • Advanced Assessment and Management of the Acutely Ill Child
  • Advanced Clinical Practice in Magnetic Resonance
  • Advanced Pathophysiology and Disease in Practice
  • Advanced Professional Practice, Business and Enterprise
  • Advanced Statistics
  • Anxiety Depression and Transdiagnostic Practice
  • Applied Occupational Therapy (1)
  • Applied Occupational Therapy (2)
  • Applied Physiotherapy (Neuro-Musculoskeletal Practice)
  • Applied Physiotherapy Practice (Acute Care Pathways)
  • Applied Physiotherapy Practice (Complex and Enduring Conditions)
  • Assessment of Musculoskeletal Injuries
  • Asthma Management
  • Asymptomatic Screening for Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV
  • Being With Adversity
  • Building Community Capacity
  • Business and Enterprise Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals
  • Business, Management and Commissioning in Public Health
  • Case Management of Long Term Conditions
  • CBT for Anxiety Disorders
  • CBT for Depression
  • Cervical Screening: Theory and Practice
  • Changing Practice in Health and Social Care
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Development, Principles and Practice
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Theories and Interventions
  • Clinical Anatomy and Physiology
  • Clinical Judgement and Decision Making
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Common Childhood Conditions
  • Consultation and Physical Examination: Health Assessment Skills
  • Contemporary Criminology
  • Contemporary Issues in Assessment and Planning in Advanced Social Work Practice
  • Contemporary Issues in Effective Intervention in Advanced Social Work Practice
  • Contemporary Issues in Evaluation and Review in Advanced Social Work Practice
  • Contemporary Issues in Occupational Health
  • Contemporary Physiotherapy Practice 2 – Acute Care Settings
  • Contraception and Reproductive Sexual Health
  • COPD: Diagnosis and Management
  • Critical Care: Contemporary Issues
  • Critically Reflective Practice in Nursing
  • Critical Perspectives in Safeguarding and Child Protection
  • Critical Perspectives in Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
  • Cultural and Sociological Aspects of Child and Adolescent Well Being
  • Curriculum Design and Development
  • Demonstrating Evidence and Analysis in Practice
  • Developing an Approach to Supervision
  • Developing Occupational Therapy Practice
  • Diabetes: Management of Type 1
  • Diabetes: Management of Type 2
  • Digital Health: Use of Technology in Health and Social Care
  • Digital Health: Work-based Project
  • Dissertation
  • Emergency Care: Care of Minor Illness and Trauma
  • Emergency Care: Management of Acute Illness and Major Trauma
  • Enhancing Quality Through Stakeholder Engagement
  • Ethical Decision Making for Healthcare Leadership
  • Evaluation Methods, Principles and Practice
  • Evidence Based Practice
  • Examination of the Newborn
  • Exercise Rehabilitation and Treatment
  • Exercise Testing and Prescription
  • Facilitating Health Behaviour Change
  • Forensic, Psychology, Offending Behaviour and the Criminal Justice System
  • Foundations of Approved Mental Health Professional Practice in a Specialist Mental Health Setting
  • Foundations of Supervision
  • Fundamentals of CBT
  • General Medical Ultrasound
  • Global Issues and Public Health
  • Gynaecological Ultrasound
  • Health in Transition
  • Historical and Philosophical Issues in Psychology
  • Holistic Assessment of the Complex Patient with Long Term Conditions
  • Human Sciences Relating to Medical Imaging
  • Implementing Psychological Research Techniques
  • Independent Pharmacist Prescribing
  • Infant Nutrition: Critical Perspectives
  • Innovations in Nursing Practice
  • Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Studies
  • Interprofessional Working
  • Introduction to Nuclear Security Management and Legislation
  • Introduction to Occupational Therapy
  • Introduction to Teaching, Learning and Assessment
  • Introduction to Working with Individuals on the Autism Spectrum
  • Leadership
  • Leadership in Global Public Health
  • Leadership in Public Health
  • Leadership Skills for Nuclear Security Management
  • Leading Evidence Based Community Learning Disabilities Nursing
  • Leading Evidence Based District Nursing
  • Leading Evidence Based General Practice Nursing
  • Leading Evidence Based Health Visiting
  • Leading Evidence Based Occupational Health Nursing
  • Leading Evidence Based School Nursing
  • Leading Evidence Based Sexual Health Advising
  • Legal and Ethical Aspects of Occupational Health
  • Life Sciences and Occupational Therapy
  • Long Term Condition Care and Management
  • Management – Managing Information for Organisational Effectiveness
  • Management – Managing Within a Strategic and Organisational Context
  • Management and Leadership: Theory and Practice
  • Management of Finance, Resources and Business Planning in Health and Social Care Settings
  • Management of Insulin Initiation
  • Managing a Magnetic Resonance Facility
  • Managing Change and Risk as an Employee and Practitioner
  • Managing External Relationships in Nuclear Security
  • Mediation and Conflict Resolution: The Principles for Use in the Workplace
  • Medicines: Therapeutics and Pharmacology
  • Migration and Health
  • Multi-Agency Working in Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
  • Multiprofessional Support of Learning and Assessment in Practice
  • Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
  • Negotiated Learning
  • Negotiated Learning for Medical Imaging
  • Normality for Child Bearing
  • Obstetric Ultrasound
  • Occupational Design
  • Pain and Symptom Management in Palliative Care Practice
  • Palliative Care Practice
  • Perinatal Mental Health: Contemporary Aspects
  • Personal Effectiveness in the Context of Leading Healthcare Organisations
  • Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE Education)
  • Perspectives on Mental Health and Exercise
  • Physiotherapy Practice – Application and Evaluation
  • Placement Shadowing Experience
  • Pre-Hospital Care: Contemporary Issues
  • Principles of Independent Prescribing Practice in the Context of Allied Health Professionals (Conversion for Supplementary Prescribers)
  • Professional Values and Ethics
  • Psychology of Violent Behaviour
  • Public Health and Social Change
  • Public Health in Practice
  • Qualificatory Practice Unit for Coaching and Mentoring
  • Qualificatory Practice Unit for the Practice Development: Acute and Critical Care Pathway
  • Qualificatory Practice Unit for the Practice Development: Unscheduled Care Pathway
  • Qualificatory Practice Unit 2: Best Interests Assessor (BIA)
  • Qualitative Research Methodologies and Techniques
  • Rehabilitation in Practice
  • Research Methods
  • Research Skills and Methods
  • Researching Academic Practice
  • Respiratory Health Assessment
  • Rhetoric and Reality of Child and Adolescent Development
  • Scholarship and Research Methods
  • Science and Instrumentation of Ultrasound
  • Security of Radioactive Materials
  • Security of Special Nuclear Materials
  • Service Redesign in Integrated Care
  • Settings in Forensic Psychology
  • Social Work as a Vehicle for Cultural Transformation
  • Soft Tissue Therapeutic Techniques
  • Strategic Management Issues for Nuclear Security
  • Strategic Planning and Management of Organisations
  • Tackling Obesity
  • The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and the Role of the Best Interest Assessor (BIA)
  • The Need for Nuclear Security Management
  • Theories of Contemporary Society
  • The Reflective Practitioner
  • The Supervisory Relationship in Context
  • Understanding Individuals on the Autism Spectrum
  • Understanding Therapeutic Diversity
  • Values and Principles of Approved Mental Health Professional Practice
  • Vascular Ultrasound
  • Work Based Learning
  • Working with Experts by Experience
  • Working with Specialist Populations in Forensic Psychology Settings
  • Youth and Community Work: Graduate Diploma
  • Youth Work: Practice and Skills
  • Youth Work: Theory and Ideology

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